Who would have though...? To think Alisa could actually enjoy herself doing something like cooking, something she'd never been good at nor had much interest in improvement - she had other plentiful thinks with which to occupy herself, far more important than such. It didn't even prove exceedingly difficult, though she guessed the simplicity of the dishes naturally contributed to this. Honestly, the only thing closely resembling 'trouble' she had to face had to do with a single drunk customer getting his hands all over her innocent partner. Yet one look at Lumen showed her not looking any worse for wear, still having that perpetual, almost air headed smile, completely nonchalant to her surrounds in a way that put even Alisa to shame. Even when she thought back to that fight against Kaiba and her summoned Ox, that moment of anger at the latter's perversion lasted so little Alisa was sure Lumen missed her sparring buddy right after the fight ended.
"Guess you wound up having fun tables, huh Lumen~?", asked Alisa, petting her partner's hair, watching the delighted hum she answered her with.
In any case, Lumen had nothing to worry about here at the bar as her partner had her eyes on her the whole time, and the moment that drunkard got frisky she made sure he got his hands off before long. She hadn't met a man (or woman for that matter) who wouldn't stand down from whatever they were doing after feeling a sharp blade poking their delicates. Luckily for her, the guy was too drunk that even if he had told his friends he found a blade randomly poking his crotch, he'd have been unable to convince them of how it conveniently vanished by the time. All the better for Alisa, but then, that was his damned fault for being a pervert, so she hardly cared too much. Yet not that she ended her shift and prepared to go back home, Alisa couldn't help but notice a single request on the job board, the only one she hadn't seen before when she went looking for them. It came from the woman named Luciel, who asked her for that translation work she did earlier. Seeing it, Alisa went to meet the woman as the request didn't really specify what the woman needed. If this was something simple, she wouldn't mind taking a little detour and clearing the job board of every low rank mission - easily done as this was the only one left.
"Let's see what she has for us this time around, shall we?"
"Hmmm~!", nodded Lumen, with a girlish, almost excited spring in her step; clearly, she'd already forgotten the boredom she had to endure on the last mission, or she looked wholeheartedly convinced the next one would be better. Or perhaps something in the middle?
Even Alisa couldn't always guess what her partner was thinking. She and this client were two of a kind, for different reasons. While Lumen simply hummed and giggled everything off, the client named Luciel scarcely showed even the slightest hint of emotion, barely even acknowledging Alisa's presence when the woman entered her study near the library, even after knocking on the door.